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1521. Royal MS 15 A VI

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Royal MS 15 A VI
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'M. T[VLLI] C[ICERONIS] de officiis ad Marcum filium liber primus' (-tertius): a text agreeing usually with the Z family (or meliores) of E. Popp's classification. Cf. 15 A. VIII, art. 4, 15 A. XX, art. 1, and Harley MS. 2682. The three Royal MSS., however, have not the omission 'gratiam-habcre'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1522. Royal MS 15 A VII

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Royal MS 15 A VII
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Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
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This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1523. Royal MS 15 A VIII

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Royal MS 15 A VIII
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CICERO, several works, and Terence &c. It does not appear at what time the different sections (artt. 1-3, artt. 4, 5, art. 6, art. 7) were bound together. Contents: 1. 'M. T[ulli] C[iceronis] de uera amicitia': Cicero's Laelius, a text which seems to agree with Halm's DE rather than with B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1524. Royal MS 15 A X

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Royal MS 15 A X
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1. Alexandreis, in ten books (5,388 hexameters); see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 94, and cf. 8 B. IV, art. 4. Beg. 'Gesta ducis Macedum totum digesta per orhem'; ends 'Gloria Willelmi nullum moritura per euum'. Table of capitula on a separate quire at the beginning. f. 2. 2. 'Marci Tullii Ci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:
1 item

1525. Royal MS 15 A X-X*

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Royal MS 15 A X-X*
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15 A. X and 15 A. X* GAUTIER DE CHÂTILLON, Alexandreis, with Cicero's De amicitia and other tracts. Scribbling on f. 90 b includes the name 'Slypton in Peykyrk paryshe' [Peakirk, co. Northt.]. Vellum; ff. 143. 71/2 in. x 43/4 in. Also vellum-roll (15 A. X*) 1 ft. 7 in. x 71/2 in. XII and XIII centt. Gatherings, i6, ii-xi8, xii7, xiii, xiv8, xv7, xvi10, xvii, xviii8, xix4. Sec. fol. 'ossibus in uultu'. Initials in colours. Belonged (f. 2) to Thomey Abbey, co. Cambr., 'Liber precentorie Tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:
2 items

1526. Royal MS 15 A X/1

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Royal MS 15 A X/1
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Fragment of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple', Abbot of Thorney
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Three joined leaves containing a part of the mortuary roll of Ralph 'the Simple' (d. c. 1216), Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire. Originally prior of Freiston Priory, Ralph took up his abbacy in 1199 after the deposition of Robert I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1216
Extent:
1 roll

1527. Royal MS 15 A XI

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Royal MS 15 A XI
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TERENTII COMOEDIAE: the recension of the grammarian Calliopius, with the usual arguments (except to Eunuchus), but no didascaliae. The plays begin as follows:-(a) Andria. f. 5;-(b) Eunuchus (colophon, 'Exitibus faustis potitur modo Eunuchus'). f. 48;-(c) Heautontimorumenos. f. 94;-(d) Adelphoe. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1528. Royal MS 15 A XII

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Royal MS 15 A XII
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TERENTII COMOEDIAE: the recension of the grammarian Calliopius. The plays are preceded (f. 1) by the epitaph of Terence, beg. 'Natus in excelsis Kartaginis edibus altis' (Bährens, Poetae Minores, v, p. 385), and follow in the usual order, viz.:-(a) Andria. f. 1 b;-(b) Eunuchus, wanting the argum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

1529. Royal MS 15 A XIII

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Royal MS 15 A XIII
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'POMPEII Trogi epitoma historiarum' (so colophon): the historical compilation by Justinus from Trogus Pompeius, preceded by the prologi or epitomae of the original work. The MS. belongs to Rühl's T (Transalpine) class. Prologues beg. 'Primo volumine continentur hec' (E 2); Justin beg. 'Cum multi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1530. Royal MS 15 A XIV

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Royal MS 15 A XIV
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M. TVLLI CICERONIS Philippicarum libri. The text has the lacunae of the D family (cf. 15 A. VIII, art. 6). Imperf. at end, from or. xiii, 46, 'expugnare cupiant ? Quid'. The first page is illegible from damp. Vellum; ff. 87. 81/4 in. x 51/4 in. Early XI cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (iv9, vi6), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
1 item

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